Example sentences of "hundred [noun pl] [adv] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the perfect place for what she had in mind , several hundred yards downhill from the house and screened by tall shrubs . |
| 2 | Probably hidden in one of those clumps of trees standing two hundred yards away from the road across the fields . |
| 3 | Rosie Kruger was in the Rollercoaster , her favourite bar on West 43rd Street , less than a hundred yards away from the heart of Times Square . |
| 4 | The pilot stationed the Lynx in a controlled hover above a dell a hundred yards away from the target . |
| 5 | When the last threat was made they staged a protest meeting which packed a church hall , a few hundred yards away from the sports field . |
| 6 | The odd German shell was bursting in the field about two hundred yards away from the bridge , far enough not to do any harm , except possibly to the cattle . |
| 7 | We stayed at Makerstoun from 1966 to 1978 and then , while keeping Makerstoun for weekends , bought a property in Edinburgh ; a neat terraced Regency house in Upper Dean Terrace on the Water of Leith , just around the corner from Raeburn 's lovely Ann Street and a few hundred yards downstream from the house in Belgrave Crescent where I was born . |
| 8 | The village lay a few hundred yards back from the river across fields of yellow stubble . |
| 9 | The cottage stood about two hundred yards back from the road , accessible only by a narrow drive flanked on both sides by stone walls . |
| 10 | As Douglas and Ramsay stationed their people about one hundred yards out from the gateway , peering to see if the drawbridge was indeed down , they were startled by two figures who materialised out of the gloom from behind a low wall of the forecourt — and were almost leapt upon there and then . |
| 11 | I 'd stay about five hundred miles away from the border if I was them yes |
| 12 | It accelerated more than anticipated with the result that the capsule landed in the Atlantic over a hundred miles away from the target area . |
| 13 | It seems odd , at first sight , that the potteries of Stoke-on-Trent ( q.v. ) should have grown up more than two hundred miles away from the source of their vital ingredient , but in fact the manufacture of stoneware and earthenware had been established in Staffordshire long before the secret of porcelain was found , and that area had the necessary clay , coal and water supplies for the growth of the industry . |